Chapter 623 Chapter 230 Reunion with Xiao Hei
Ye Tingbai: "Have you noticed that this city has a weak sense of technology?"
The secondary personality grabbed a pig's trotter and came to the edge of the rooftop, stopping for a long time: "Indeed, all the electrical appliances are very old models, but these types have one thing in common, that is, there are no chips or integrated circuits."
In fact, they have also experienced this kind of old-fashioned electrical appliances before. In that battle with the mechanical C'Thun, the mechanical C'Thun could make all the sophisticated electronic equipment fail and turn them all into a brick.
But this old, most common electrical appliance can be used normally.
It should be said that electronics and mechanics are two different things. For example, an old induction cooker has only one heating ring. It works when it is powered on, and it doesn't work when it is not powered on. Even the mechanical C'Thun can't do anything about it.
And those with circuit boards, overload protection, automatic power-off and other fancy functions will be paralyzed. The fundamental reason is that those sophisticated circuit boards are broken.
And cities like the current one that tend to be old mechanical style will have a much higher ability to resist risks, but whether it is really a defense against mechanical C'Thun, Ye Tingbai is not sure.
The city equipment here is very old, and the walls also have traces of weathering and renovation, which means that this city has existed for more than one or two days. It is impossible to specifically target C'Thun. There should be some other special reasons.
For example, for safety, after all, the probability of electronic equipment being monitored and discovered is much higher.
Secondary personality: "I'm done eating. It's better to find an ordinary person's home to check the situation. I'm a little curious about this city."
Ye Tingbai: "That's what I mean!"
Ye Tingbai threw his mobile phone into the kingdom of God. Although it has a signal, which can prove that this city has no strange ability to shield electronic equipment, it is still safer to avoid the signal being discovered.
Ye Tingbai hugged Chunxia and jumped down from the roof with the secondary personality. It is not difficult for him to be invisible now. In addition, the city's monitoring ability is seriously lacking, resulting in the three of them being in an empty space here.
Secondary personality: "These people's pollution index is still pretty good, which is quite rare."
This building is the center of the city. The first ten floors are various shopping malls. It is very lively and there are many people coming in and out. But it starts to become deserted from the tenth floor up, and even the top floor has been strictly guarded.
This layout makes him a little confused. If this building is so important, why is it set up as a shopping mall?
Shopping malls are destined to be places with large traffic and full of various unstable factors. If a place is worth being guarded like this, it should be built in some more hidden locations.
The existence of this building itself is very contradictory, unless this building needs popularity.
The central building is like a kilometer around it. There is no one living there. There are all kinds of shops. The things sold in the shops here also surprised Ye Tingbai, such as solutions that can maintain their own pollution index, and even soft candies that have a certain effect in reducing their own pollution index.
There are also some drugs that are expressly prohibited by humans that are sold openly, and the store name sells happiness.
This place can be said to be a paradise for judges. Drugs are just like ordinary happy drugs for judges. The harm that drugs can cause to judges is minimal.
Chunxia: "Everything here seems to be trying to serve them."
Ye Tingbai: "Yes, if I were a judge, I would also like to live in such a city without discrimination and full of convenience."
Even though judges have strong strength, they will also be feared and discriminated against by ordinary humans. They cannot use some of the things that ordinary humans use, such as most of the medicines. If judges are sick, human medicine will not work for them.
Ordinary scalpels can't even cut their bodies, so judges need to disguise and adapt to live in the world of ordinary humans, try to disguise like an ordinary person, so that people around you are not so afraid of you, and won't run away when they see you.
After all, humans are social animals. If everyone rejects you, most people will go crazy.
So such a city that exists entirely for the judge is undoubtedly a paradise for the judge. Although this city does not have all kinds of high-tech, it is comfortable and calm to live here.
Secondary personality: "Have you seen the things those people bought from the mall?
They are all special products without trademarks, which are very similar to those we saw in the Star Domain Factory. This may really be the source."
Ye Tingbai also opened and tasted those things. The canned meat is really pure meat canned, which is completely different from the starch mixed with meat they usually eat.
Including the tents they use, the quality is exceptionally good.
The three people were really curious, so they went into the mall and took a look around. They found that there was no cashier here, which means that everything here is free. There are people here who will go to restock, and the restocker is actually using telekinesis?
Telekinesis is a common ability to judge. The divine control of the secondary personality is exactly the same as telekinesis to a certain extent. This is nothing, but can the body withstand such abuse of the ability to judge?
Secondary personality: "It seems that the pollution control index stuff sold outside is really useful."
Chunxia: "But those stores outside obviously need to pay."
Basic food and living supplies are all free, and the quality is very good, but once there are more advanced needs, it is estimated that you will have to work hard.
Ye Tingbai: "But if the Foundation has such a thing, why hide it?
This is very strange. Even if it is sold at a high price, there will be people who will buy it, but I have never heard of anything like it."
When Si Youxu was tortured by pollution, he even thought of leaving a way out, which shows that he really has no way to solve the problem of his own pollution out of control. This thing that even people like Si Youxu can't touch basically shows that it has never been spread.
Sub-personality: "Do you remember Xiao Hei said that he traded with the Foundation for something that can suppress pollution? This kind of thing should have existed a long time ago.
Maybe it hasn't been spread, but because of insufficient production capacity, the Foundation can't even meet its own needs, so naturally it won't distribute it to the Order Institute."
Ye Tingbai: "Let's get two bottles and see, I'm a little curious."
The three left the supermarket and found a random store. There are not just one kind of thing to control the pollution index, but many kinds, including soft candies, pills, and oral liquids, all kinds of gimmicks and advertisements. It's a completely free market, and the currency they need to trade is called points.
Ye Tingbai took out a piece of soft candy from the store that claimed to be able to reduce the pollution index. The price of this soft candy was 130 points. You should know that in the store next to it that sells happy water (drugs), the amount of happy water used in a month is only 1 point.
This kind of soft candy can be said to be a huge sum of money, because ordinary items are basically free, and it is difficult for Ye Tingbai to infer the purchasing power of such points.
The soft candy smells good, it is the taste of green apples, but there is still an unpleasant fishy smell hidden in the sweet taste. This does not require his special ability. Any ordinary person can smell it carefully.
This fishy smell is disgusting. Even such a strong fruity flavor cannot cover up the smell, but this thing is still very popular, which shows that it really works.
The secondary personality grabbed the piece of fructose and put it in his mouth to taste it. He was even tasting it carefully. Although he knew that the secondary personality was analyzing the special ingredients in it, Ye Tingbai still felt disgusted when he saw it.
Secondary personality: "Most of it is ordinary fructose, but it is mixed with some protein, like the meat of some creatures. This part of the meat neutralizes part of the divine power in this body."
The secondary personality also has divine power. After all, they are one body, but he can't use it. Most of the divine power is diffused in the body, strengthening his physical fitness. This is one of the reasons why the secondary personality always fights in hand-to-hand combat.
Ye Tingbai: "Neutralizing divine power, it is estimated that it can also neutralize pollution. It seems that this thing is really useful. Is it made of the flesh and blood of some pollutants as raw materials?"
The abilities of pollutants are all kinds of strange. Maybe there is a pollutant that can neutralize all abilities. If the pollution is neutralized, the pollution index will naturally drop.
But after turning around, it still comes back to the question, what is the purpose of building this city? Anyway, Ye Tingbai doesn't believe that the foundation is so kind to build a paradise for the judges. The foundation must be able to get more rewards from these people.
If you want to know about this, you can only ask the judges. Several people left the central business district and went to the place where the judges lived. When they arrived here, they found that this city was much larger than they imagined. These buildings were not bungalows, but the top floors of buildings.
The foundation actually built high-rise buildings underground, which means that there are more than ten floors of basements under these bungalows. Those who can live on the ground are high-level judges, starting at level seven.
And those lower-level judges can only live in the basement. Although these buildings are well made, living underground all day is not as good as living outside, right?
Maybe what these people really care about is not the life here, but the things that can keep them alive to maintain the pollution index.
Secondary personality: "Someone is coming~"
Several people are now standing on the stairs on the seventh floor underground. Ye Tingbai waved his hand and asked them to stand against the wall. He laid a layer of divine power barrier and let passers-by pass first.
There was a faint sound of footsteps approaching, and a man in a black hood walked down with his head down. But the man took two steps and stopped in front of Ye Tingbai. He looked up. That was!
Xiao Hei's face.
He raised his finger to his mouth and made a silent gesture, then hooked his finger, indicating that they should follow him, and then Xiao Hei turned and walked up. Ye Tingbai was stunned. Xiao Hei was really alive?
He could actually see them through Ye Tingbai's divine power barrier. This was not the ability of an ordinary judge or pollutant.
Xiao Hei went up all the way to another building. He lived on the second floor. Xiao Hei opened the door with a key and turned sideways as if waiting for a few people to enter.
Ye Tingbai couldn't help asking, "Can you see me?"
Xiao Hei: "I can't see it, but I can feel my weapon, so I know it's you."
At the beginning, Xiao Hei left his dagger to himself, and then died. This is a fact. Later, he was accidentally seen in the geocentric laboratory, but he disappeared too quickly for Ye Tingbai to catch him.
Ye Tingbai put away the divine power barrier. When Chun Xia showed up, Xiao Hei was slightly surprised. Although it was short, he was still caught by Ye Tingbai. He seemed to have really found Ye Tingbai just by feeling.
Ye Tingbai: "What's wrong with you? Aren't you dead?"
Xiao Hei: "When Brother Si resurrected me, he lost my body, and then the body was obtained by the Foundation, and they resurrected me in some way.
Most of the judges in this city were gathered by them in this way. Each judge has a special ability and may help the Foundation at some time in the future."
Ye Tingbai: "He actually lost you?
But it was indeed quite miserable at that time."
At the beginning, Si Youxu cooperated with Yuwen Ergou, but he was treated like a ghost and almost died. It was not surprising that Xiao Hei's body was lost, but Ye Tingbai did not expect that he would meet Xiao Hei in this way.
Xiao Hei: "Are they all okay?"
Ye Tingbai: "They are all alive, no one is in trouble. If they knew you were still alive, they would probably be very happy, especially Xiaoxiao."
Xiao Hei: "No, I'm already dead, don't disturb their lives anymore, I'm satisfied knowing they are all okay."
Ye Tingbai: "Are you serving the foundation now?"
Xiao Hei shook his head and was silent for a long time, as if he was organizing his words. Ye Tingbai didn't urge him, he also owed Xiao Hei.
After a long silence, Xiao Hei whispered: "I have never betrayed you."
Hearing this, Ye Tingbai's heart suddenly tightened. This person with no sense of existence has always regarded those people in Yangcheng as his family. He was thinking about others until his death.
Ye Tingbai: "I didn't mean that. I just wanted to ask about the situation here."
Xiao Hei: "After being resurrected by the Foundation, you will be brought here. Most people will have their own jobs. If they work hard, they can get the most basic things to maintain the pollution index.
There is an energy shield outside this city, and we can't leave."
Ye Tingbai: "Then what happened to you last time?"
Xiao Hei: "My special ability makes the Foundation want me to follow you and provide intelligence, but the Foundation is also monitoring me, so I can't give you too many hints."
Ye Tingbai: "When did it start?
Was it from that sandwich world?"
Xiao Hei: "Yes, that was the first time I followed you. I killed the director of the Carving Institute. I deliberately picked up your dagger to use."
Ye Tingbai: "Isn't this hint too obscure?"